The community has asked the Board to approve uncontroversial Animal Management Plans directly, but to bring any controversial ones to a General Meeting for a vote. The attached AMP from Mark Green (photos of Mark Green’s original form, and a Board-typed copy) asks for approval to have introduced species not permanently contained by fencing, but just discouraged from wandering onto community land. Approval of this AMP could require Bylaw 8 to be amended, and will create a precedent for any other member to have uncontained animals wandering beyond the boundary of their own lot. This would be a significant enough change to warrant a vote by the whole community, so please read the attached AMP before the August AGM when it will be discussed and voted on. (The Board)
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Goolawah Co-op Members 
In relation to AMP number 13. Please be advised that the situation of Guinea Fowl wandering of 2020 has been addressed. All 15 were removed. They left 6 eggs raised by chickens when they hatched. The current 6 Guinea Fowl rarely wander off my site. The anonymous complaints that they do wander habitually are false and exaggerated. Please be advised that the shooting off arrows onto and across my site was brought to members of the boards attention in late 2018/early 2019. Please be advised a dead kangaroo was found on my site this morning with an arrow in the middle of its abdomen. My guinea spotted the dead kangaroo under my solar panels and raised the alarm. The Guinea Fowl do not respond to resting kangaroos by raising the alarm. The claims by the board that approving animal management #13 will lead to unmitigated grazing of introduced animals is entirely disingenuous, biased, dishonest and false. As with other by-laws, by-laws are often enforced by ‘the spirit and not the letter’. As with the ‘no unregistered motorbikes’ by law, members accept that the riding of unregistered motorcycles as currently occurs because they cause no significant disturbance or harm. If such motorcycles were ridden recklessly the community may still object. Had the board responded appropriately, not with nepotism, to my earlier concerns of arrows being shot at native animals, across my site, the kangaroo on my site with an arrow in it may not have been killed. I ask all members to remain alert to sightings of my guinea fowl off my site, to take a photograph of time and place and send it to me. They rarely venture more than one metre beyond my tree line to catch the morning sun on frosty mornings and either move back onto my site within a short while or I herd them back. They have responded to training and a reduction in their numbers from previously. I have been issued a $110 fine on the basis of false and anonymous complaints. My concern is not that there wil be unmitigated grazing of introduced species, but that there will be unmitigated corruption in terms of boards members and anonymous complainers fining others members, acting nepotiscally, on the basis of false or exaggerated claims. Those 6 guinea fowl eggs hatched in early 2020. Nobody seems to have noticed them until recently, which is understandable considering some complainers don’t get out of their cars much and spend a lot of time looking at an LCD screen, perhaps.
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